Ansel Faraj

Ansel Faraj is an award-winning independent director, screenwriter, and producer. An LA kid growing up minutes from Venice Beach - he decided at the age of 6 to be a film director, and has thus spent the past 21 years working steadily toward that goal. With no connections to the film industry, he spent his formative years studying the films screened on Turner Classic Movies; and watching Dark Shadows reruns on SciFi Channel, which instilled in him a great love of the occult and the macabre. He is a fully self taught filmmaker - making his own productions - first on mini-VHS tapes with his Universal Monsters action figures, and later with friends from school, learning and honing his craft with each production. Supported by his family and a talented repertory company of actors, he has directed eight feature films and countless short subjects, operating on a budget of chewing gum, shoestring, and sheer determination. He first gained attention with his revisionist Doctor Mabuse films, t